Categories: OLD Media Moves

Orlando Biz Journal names new publisher

Martin Lewis has been named the new publisher of the Orlando Business Journal, an American City Business Journals paper.

A story on its website states, “Lewis will succeed Ann Sonntag, who has been publisher of ABCJ’s Orlando paper for 16 years. Sonntag announced her retirement in October after 21 years with ACBJ.

“Prior to joining Orlando Business Journal, Lewis most recently served as the projects director and, previously, the advertising director of sister paper Washington Business Journal. Before joining ACBJ, he was publisher of Utah Business magazine in Salt Lake City for 13 years.

“Lewis will be joining the Orlando office in January.”

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Chris Roush

Chris Roush was the dean of the School of Communications at Quinnipiac University in Hamden, Connecticut. He was previously Walter E. Hussman Sr. Distinguished Professor in business journalism at UNC-Chapel Hill. He is a former business journalist for Bloomberg News, Businessweek, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, The Tampa Tribune and the Sarasota Herald-Tribune. He is the author of the leading business reporting textbook "Show me the Money: Writing Business and Economics Stories for Mass Communication" and "Thinking Things Over," a biography of former Wall Street Journal editor Vermont Royster.